Over the last decade or so, the number of times when New Labour has created legislation in what 'the Simpsons' would call 'the American way' - i.e. do a 'half arsed job' - has been legion. There must…
Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…
A couple of years ago Naomi Klein wrote a fascinating - and scary - book called'Shock Doctrine' in which she presented the thesis that what we now call 'free market capitalism' - that form of capitali…
I don't like to admit it in public, but I kind of like my work. I'm self-employed, in IT. I probably do around 35 hours a week 'client facing' work and probably about 10 hours a week grubbing up new…
I'm not overly paranoid about people knowing where I've been on the Internet; I'm aware that it's pretty easy for a website to feed your browser 'tracking cookies' that can be used for marketing and a…
Unsurprisingly, repossessions are at a 14 year high. It would have been unthinkable for the recession to have had any other impact on householder finances, as is indicated by this report on the BBC w…
As is my habit, I popped in to the BBC Website this morning to catch up on what's been happening in the world and saw this article, with the link headline from the front page of 'Why globalisation mea…
In separate interviews, we heard today that Prime Minister Gordon Brown had openly cried when discussing the death of his daughter in a media interview, and we also found Spinmeister Supreme Alastair …
There is a super book by Scott Adams, creator of 'Dilbert', called'The Way of the Weasel'. In a semi-lighthearted manner it deals with the less honourable methods that people in the workplace have of…
I have to admit to being quite saddened by President Obama's announcement cancelling the NASA project to carry out manned missions to the moon. Perhaps it's something to do with my age; I can remembe…